Turns out, the toys you buy your kids can affect how well they learn language, but maybe not in the way you think. Anna Sosa is an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at ...

Every parent wants to nurture their child’s developmental growth. Toys are a great resource to stimulate learning outside of ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard If parents want to help their babies learn to talk, they need to ditch the chattering electronic ...

Just because a toy's packaging says it's educational doesn't make it so. That's the finding from a new study in JAMA Pediatrics that found some toys being marketed as language promoters got in the way ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Often marketed as educational, electronic toys have the ...

Walk down the children's toy aisle in any store these days and you will be greeted with a cacophony of noise. Instead of the excited voices of children that you might expect, however, much of the ...

Talking toys usually come preloaded with questions and phrases designed to get children talking, and there’s no telling what kids will feel compelled to discuss. As internet-connected toys have begun ...

Only a weirdo would use a thirty-year-old word processor to get real work done. (I know what I’m talking about: I used word processors back then, and don’t want to go back.) There’s nothing ...

Whether it’s a Furby or Buzz Lightyear’s button that plays, ‘To infinity and beyond’, most digital audio applications inside toys are actually simple affairs. There’s no Arduino and wave shield, and ...